Dear Carl,
You may want to consider my doctoral thesis at Indiana University on "Strategy, Structure and Innovation" which is an empirical investigation of governance in eight divisions of a Fortune 500 firm. Using measures that I developed from Strategic Management and Transaction Costs in consultation with Oliver Williamson, I found that the most important variable affecting the decision to internalize innovative activity was Trust. Williamson later pursued this direction with his own doctoral students in Economics. While this triggered a stream of strategy research on Trust that continues to this day, I was unable to publish my results. If this is relevant to your current endeavor, I will be thrilled!
The main critique by AMR reviewers was that I had gone beyond Williamson's own work. Of course that was the point - as has been confirmed subsequently by others.
We talked at a conference some years ago at a reception where you had arranged for a giant Lion Dance. You were teaching in China at the time.
Best regards,
Carolyn
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Date: 3/15/19 10:37 AM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: Looking for Unpublished Studies on the relationship between innovation and management practices
Dear Colleagues:
We are conducting a meta-analysis on management practices and innovation. As part of the analysis, we have to test the data for the unpublished bias. If you have an unpublished quantitative study that focuses at least on the relationship between innovation and at least one of the management practices listed below, we would highly appreciate you sharing with us a copy of the draft paper or its title, authors, the country where the data comes from, and the correlation coefficients between innovation and any of our management practices listed below which you use in your study.
We are interested in relationships between any of the managerial levers listed below and innovation (including product, process, service, radical or incremental innovation):
- HRM practices
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge application
- Social capital
- Knowledge creation & recognition
- Knowledge storage & sharing
- Human capital
- Technology management
- Diversity
- External linkages and network
- Leadership
- Organizational culture
- Risk taking
- R&D manpower
- R&D intensity & expenditures
- Slack resources
- Strategy
- Customer & market orientation
- Cost orientation
- Systems & structures
- Formalization
- Decentralization
Thank you in advance for your help. –Carl
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Dr. Carl F. Fey
Professor of International Business
IB Unit
Aalto University School of Business
Helsinki, Finland
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carl.fey@aalto.fi
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Deputy Editor, Management and Organization Review